They should be required to join Schengen, though. For one, not having to have border facilities at railway stations would open up a lot of very useful cross-Channel rail routes.

The UK could rejoin the European Union without adopting the Euro but must accept freedom of movement, the bloc’s former chief Brexit negotiator has said.

Michel Barnier said it was “perfectly possible to begin such a negotiation [on membership] without any kind of obligation to take part in” the EU’s single currency.

But what remains “unnegotiable” is “the condition to join the single market”, he said. That would require accepting freedom of movement of people as well as of goods, services, and capital.

“As far as the freedom of movement is concerned, I can only repeat that the four freedoms are linked together and are not negotiable,” the former French prime minister, once dubbed the bloc’s “Mr Brexit”, told Sky News.

“Brexit is a con, a trick, a swindle, a fraud, a deception that will hurt most of those people it promised to help, a dangerous fantasy which will make every problem it claims to solve worse . Friends on this side of the House tell me to appease Labour voters in industrial towns - the former miners, the factory workers, those who feel they’ve been left behind. I say we must not patronise them with cowardice, let’s tell them the truth - you were old a lie. Immigrants have not taken your jobs, our schools and colleges failed to give you the skills, hospitals are not crumbling because of health tourists but decades of austerity that ground them down to the bone, you cannot afford a house because both parties failed to build, not because of Mohammed down the road who moved in, and wealth was hoarded in London when it should have been shared across the country. Blame us, blame Westminster, do not blame Brussels for our own country’s mistakes and do not be angry at us for telling you the truth, be angry at the chancers who sold you a lie ... Just as I speak plainly to the government this time around, let me also speak to the opposition about some home truths. There is no leftwing justification for Brexit. Ditching workers’ rights, social protections and ending environmental cooperation is not progressive. This is a project about neo-liberal deregulation, it’s Thatcherism on steroids pushed by her modern-day disciples. Leaving the EU will not free us from the injustices of global capitalism, it will make us subordinate to Trump’s US. Socialism confined to one country will not work, whether you like it or not, the world we live in is global, we can only fix the rigged system if we cooperate across border lines. The party of Keir Hardie has always been international. We must not let down our young supporters by failing to stand with them at the biggest issue of our lives."

So - the same thing as before, only after losing billions.

Cool.

What is really required is member states enforcing their laws. There are paths to removing member state citizens from your country. They are not all that difficult or unreasonable, for example there are time limitations on getting a job. These just need to be enforced.

There needs to be a wider bloc discussion on passport programs for investors, in that it should be entirely banned.

Burnham is being exceedingly cautious about the ~40% who still somehow believe in Brexit.

If the UK did join the eurozone, it would be by choice. All you have to do is promise to join it. Then just sit on your heels. No one will actually make you. Case in point: Poland.

Since the convergence criteria require participation in the ERM, and non-eurozone member states are responsible for deciding when to join ERM, they can ultimately control when they adopt the euro by staying outside the ERM and thus deliberately failing to meet the convergence criteria until they wish to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_eurozone

Freedom of movement:

• we get to move, go on holiday, and work in the EU with no visas/red-tape
• we get access to EU doctors who can live and work freely in the UK and don't need to worry about their families getting deported.
• our fruit doesn't go off in our fields (this is sarcasm, but mainly true)
• no EU country is predominantly black (which is what the racists were actually worried about)
• illegal immigration went up since Brexit. Ending it didn't help.

I screamed in the kitchen when I heard the Conservatives sell it as a benefit, smiling like crocodiles. If anything, it took our rights away.

Oh ffs